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MACWORLD November 1984 $4.00 The Macintosh"Magazine Canada $4.75 The end is near! For homeless printers. Dangling disk drives. Mispliced manuals. And run- awily Mice. Because on November 19, we will introduce a Macintosh accessory unlike any other, One that will organize you. Conserve precious desk space. And protect your valuable investment in hardware and software. While making you wonder how you ever 1a Macintosh withoutit It's the pertect Christmas gift for your favorite Mac owner. Which might very well be vout By the way, we've saved the best news for last: You can take one home for After November 19th, that is. Until then, we're keeping our newest accessory under wraps. 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Tecmar Sweetens Apples™ Tecmar Inc. 6225 Cochran Road Solon(Cleveland), Ohio 44139-3377 Phone:(216)349-0600 Telex: 466692 Circle 14 on reader service card MACWORLD The Macintosh"Magazine 47 November 1984 Getting Started Double-Disk Strategies Daniel Farber The Mac’s external disk drive increases your disk space, eliminates juggling, and offers variety in organizing applications and documents. Get Info Lon Poole Macworld’s tutor answers questions. from readers about the Mac. 2 November 1984 56 State of the Art The Macintosh Deluxe Danny Goodman Announcing the 512K “Fat” Mac, the eagerly anticipated expansion of the Macintosh into a more powerful computer. Review The MacFORTH Dimension Richard Sprague The inside story on the first programming language that enables you to use the Mac as a stand-alone stem for developing marketable applications. The Living-Room Casino Jeffrey Bartlett and Keith Richard Cook Two gambling games that come alive with the ringing of a slot machine and. the shuffling of cards. Macware News Edited by Erfert Nielson Announcements of the latest developments in Macintosh software, hardware, and accessories. H suneeeggesnanzecensnnsoce How can you use your Macintosh to write musical scores without purchasing an expensive application program? See this ‘month's Open Window on page 124. 100 110 124 134 146 Hands On Columns Murder at the Vermilion Hotel 9 Travels in the Personal Computer Jeremy Joan Hewes Time Machine It’s not easy for a writer to keep the David Bunnell many details of a mystery story 15 Note Pad consistent, try using storyboards Amanda Hixson created in MacPaint. The Serious Side of Creativity Letter Quality Arrives 19 Letters Janette Martin 26 Macworld View Three printer driver programs that Edited by Janet McCandless end the wait for letter quality printing News and notes for the Macintosh on the Mac. community. a Open Window a, Edited by Kearney Rietmann An exchange of Macintosh discoveries. Indexes 160 Advertisers e 160 Products Community The Macintosh Family Tree > Ted Nace eoee Tracing the forty-year ancestry of the Find out why com- Mac through many permutations and puter science re- pioneering ideas. searcher Douglas En- Macworld Gallery gelbart (below) tested Edited by Erfert Nielson the length of time it An exhibition of Macintosh graphics. took people to write a sentence using a pen- cil tied to a brick (above). See “The Mac- intosh Family Tree” on page 134. Photo/illustration credits David Bishop, cover, 35, 56-57; Jobn Hersey, 81; Ed Kashi, cover (inset), 137, 139-140; Jeffery Newbury, 100-101; Roy Shigley, 26; George Steinmetz, 9, 15, 47; Fred Stimson, 111; Mick Wiggins, 27, 29. } VA eee0o0 How to get your Macintosh. to print witha daisy wheel, letter quality printer. From the team who wrote MacWriten comes a powerful application program that allows you to print your text with any popular daisywheel, letter quality printer. Mac Daisywheel-Connection comes with the interface cable you'll need, the software program, and a quick start-up guide. The application program is straightforward and maintains the visual fidelity of your file even when you mix text and graphics. The Mac-Daisywheel: Connection supports MacWrite and Multiplan: and other Macintosh software products. ‘The Mac:Daisywheel Connection is now available through your local Apple Computer Dealer. List price $99. Other quality products avaitable from Assimilation Process: + Mac Spell Right spelling checker + Mac-Turbo-Touch. Available next month ~Ten-Pack of blank 344" diskettes = “WT Assimilation Process .. © dsamiinon Proce 1984 eer eee ree Circle 68 on reader service card 4 November 1984 MACWORLD Editorial itor-in-Chief: Andrew Fluegelman Editor: Kearney Rietmann Associate Editor: Daniel Farber Assistant Editor: Adrian Mello frorial Manager: janet McCandless Editorial Assistant: Erfert Nielson. Copy Editors: jettrey Bartlett, Frances Grimble Assistant to the Editors: Heidi Mitchell Contributing Editors: Danny Goodman, Lon Poole, jeffrey S. Young Art & Production Associate Publisher: Jacqueline Poitier Designer: Marjorie Spiegelman Art Director: Bruce Charonnat Senior Production Manager: ¥ Production Manager: Lee RT Editorial Production Manager: Ellyn Hament Associate Designers: Dennis Mc Monica Thorsnes Design Associates: Leslie | Blake, Molly Windsor-MeLeod, Donna sinces Mann, Publishing & Sales Publisher: David Bunnell National Accountants Manager: Rod Conklin Marketing Services Manager: Charles Abrams National Sales Manager: Penny Righy Eastern Account Manager: Vincent vey Circulation Associate Publisher: Cheryl Woodard Director Single Copy Sales: George Single Copy Sales Manager: Bill Cox Dealer Sales Manager: Mary Ruth Kristoff Communications Manager: Noreen A, Browning Special Projects Director: Susan Keller Administration Director: Junet McGinnis Accounting Manager: Pat Murphy Facilities Manager. Joseph Wollenweber rsonnel Manager: Sarah Cox sistent to the President: Cheistina W. Spence a Corporate PC World Communications, ne David Bunnell Chairmen Bartlett R. Rhoades President & CEO Andrew Fluegelman Vice President Jacqueline Poitier Vice President Cheryl Woodard Vice President Volume 1, Number 5 November, 1984 Macworld’ (ISSN 0741-8647) is published monthly by PC World Communications, Ine., 555 De Haro St, San Francisco, CA 94107. Subseriptionrates for the US. and Canada are $30 for 12 issues, $50 for 24 is sus, and $70 for 36 issues. Canadian orders must he paid in US. funds. Outsiderhe ULS.and Canada sub. scriptions must be prepaid in US, Funds with addi- tional postage at $12 per 12 issues for surf $60 per 12 issues for airmail, For subscriber service {questions call 800/247-5470 (in lowet H00/582.1272) cor write: Subscriber Serviews, PO, Box 20800, Bergenfield, Ny 07621. 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Macworld is erSweden, MikroDatorn, Alin Hemdeltor, Srensket PC World: United Kingdom: Computer Manage: ‘meut, Computer News, Computer Husiness Eu rope: Xinived States: Computerworld, Hot CoCo, In- Cider, InfoWorld, jr, Macworld, Micro Marker world, Microcomputing, PC World, PGjr World, un, 73 Magazine, $O-Micro. Printed in the Uoited States of Amerie ©1984 PC World Communications, Ine ‘APUBLICATION OF cut Communacations Weite, Mac Spell Right Now your Macintosh.can even correct your spelling for you! From the team who wrote MacWrite comes Mac Spell Right, a power- ful new application program that awéomatically checks and corrects your spelling. And, it gives you alternate word choices as well. Mac‘Spell-Right puts the power of Webster’s Dictionary and Roget’s Thesaurus into every MacWrite document you create Drastically reduce the time you spend checking and editing your docu- ments. Mac’Spell Right worksdirectly within MacWrite, and runs transparently while you work. You don't have to be bothered switching back and forth between disks and programs. Mac Spell Rightadds “‘Spell,~ ” to the MacWrite menu. Just click “Spell.~” from the MacWrite menu bar to check a specific word or the entire document. Improve your productivity on Macintosh. Put Mac ‘Spell Right to work for you. Mac-Spell Right isavailablenow through your local Apple Computer dealer. List price $89. Or, call toll-free: 1- 800° MAC:5464. In California, toll free: 1-800 - 421-0243. Ordial direct: 408 446-0797. Other quality products from Assimilation Process: Mac: Daisywheel : Connectionrs, a software driver and printer cable that allows you to print from any popular letter quality, daisy wheel printer. Available now. Ten-Pack of blank 34” diskettes — Certified Media — for your Macintosh. Available now. Mac Turbo: Touchr, a high speed input device for your Macintosh. Available next month. jit WT Assimilation Process Apple Computer and MadWrite are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh isa trademark licensed to Apple Computer Mac* Daisy wheel Connection. Mac Spell Right and Mac* Turbo Touch are trademarks of Assimilation Process. ©assimilation Process 1984 Circle 110 on reader service card We interrupt this magazine f Central Sales Region Sales Performance vs. Quota ott Microsoft Chart, business graphics ‘Once Spreadsheet Link has retrieved the dota you Fequested, Multiplan does the calculations you Spesteg Dow Jones Spreadsheet Link, stock analysis ane communications. Microsoft Multiplan, electronic spreadsheet MacProject. project management. Toe oe Filevision, database management. DATE. uv To's wavoos, cow FROM GAM FINANCE MEETING AGENDA 2 my comments on yur repose nanan forte Farce Gros ‘grommet 1 toviog Date. ie rscussng tmemoving cate seams each since there ereve many ureawss cnc et agg aha youcan ts mate Ons theBase, database management Home ‘Mac’ Accountant, personal finance. ‘The programs above are just a fiw examples of new software for Macintxh, Some are available none others wil ct, Macermina, ad Mache. are trademan 596, In cinuata. cell (800) 268-7796 orf TR! Solver, equation processor Dou’ Jones Market Manager. stock analysis MacDraw graphic illustration. EEEPEBEEETEEFEEEPEEE] Habadex, database and communications. © 1984 Apple Computer Inc. Apple, the Apple lego, MacDraac Nach Por an audbortzed Apple dealer nearest you call (800) 538-9 of: He fa Computer Inc. Maacintesh isc trade SO 10) 208-7637. eased i he coming tees “Aeaildble 4h quarter 1984." “Aruilable It queater: 1985 rf Ficensed to pple Ceonputer ae ‘some important programs. Every business day, a new = software program is being : developed for the Macintosh™ <i ii : Personal Computer. vv gt Software for word pro- cessing. Spreadsheets. Business graphics. Project management. a! Database management. And ay pay data communications. As well as software that enables Macintosh to do things that have never been done on a computer before. Which means the worlds easiest-to-use business computer is well on its way to becoming the worlds most useful busi- ness computer. The Lotus Macintosh Product, integrated business software** Main Street Filer, database management Any authorized Apple dealer will gladly demonstrate that fact. Just ask to see the com- puter that's software compatible. With human beings. @une ony O1smsz7e ons ours2 Ontece © uncenine (© ited kingdom (0132 cotumas 08 Onmoietme Of ster et Bmw ito 4 MacTerminal, Helix, data communications. relational database. fojeo] {o fi es a} jo 2 rt {o}:f PFS: File, Peachtree’s Back to Basics, database management. accounting package. By ERGOTRON ine AN ERGONOMIC STAND AS REVOLUTIONARY AS THE MACINTOSH™ The Macintosh Mouse and Icon have ushered in a new standard in personal computing. Because Icons are integral to the Macintosh operation, good screen visibility is absolutely essential for optimum User performance and comfort. The screen is no longer just a display, but a tool as essential to the User as the Keyboard or Mouse. The new MacTilt is designed to elevate the Macintosh and allow screen ad- justment to a viewing angle which is just perfect for you. As smooth as silk, the MacTilt can be easily adjusted with the touch ofa finger to reduce glare and provide the optimum in screen/icon visibility. For alow $99.95, MacTilt will convert your Macintosh into a professional ergonomic workstation which will allow you and your Staff to realize the full potential of this revolutionary new Computer. The MacTilt’s unique design tilts 30° and rotates 360°. In addition, your Macintosh lifts easily on and off when used as a portable. To obtain your new MacTilt, visit your nearest Apple Computer Dealer or call or write: eG ROM) ine 9299 puter Stand omputers tures the World’ RT Monitors and Porta ntosh is a u Circle 83 on reader service card David Bunnell ravels in the Personal Computer Time Machine The personal computer has come a long way in the past decade, but we haven't seen anything yet When you work in the personal computer business, time takes onan elusive quality. As one of the few ten-year veterans of personal computing (which be- gan with the introduction of the Altair in December 1974), am definitely an old guy, Al- though in the real world Lam just 37, in personal computer years | must be well over 100. This is nota complaint. [don't feel like a centenarian, but I probably have had 100 years’ worth of experienc In 1974 | was one of 15 people trying to hang on to MITS, an electronics company that had been all but wiped out by what were then known as. the “calculator wars.” Our prob- Jem was that kit calculators we sold for $110 suddenly became available already assembled for under $50. Our salvation lay ina kit computer, the Altair, which we hoped to have featured on the cover of Popular Electronics magazine. The question was whether we could keep the company afloat while we waited to see if the magazine article would have enough im- pact to keep us in business. As | helped Ed Roberts, the com- pany president, draft this arti- cle, little dic I know that it would set off a frenzy that would become the starting point of the personal computer revolution. Expecting to sell 500 Altair computers in 1975, we received about 5000 paid orders for the kits within three months of the article's publication. Soon thereafter, many people who bought Altairs were busy set- ting up their own busin . which included the first com- puter retail stores, the first per- sonal computer software com- panies, and the first personal computer hardware peripheral companies. Before the end of the year there were even two personal computer magazines: Byte and Creative Computing. Recently, the Altair days and other personal computer devel- opments, including the found- ing of Apple Computer, have been extensively reported on and in some ways romanticized by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine in their book Mire i the Valley, Many readers are amazed to learn of the humble roots of personal computing, For one thing, even though much of the necessary technol- ogy for the personal com- puter’s existence was devel- oped in northern California's Silicon Valley, the Altair itself was created in Albuquerque, New Mexico. By 1977 MITS was recog- nized as the dominant personal computer manufacturer, and for a brief moment (it seemed like years to me) that southwestern city was the center of the per- sonal computer universe. Mi- crosoft (which grew out of MITS) was also in Albuquer- que, as well as Personal Com- puting magazine (started by yours truly) and the United States Robotics Society. Since then, there have been many spectacular successes. and equally grandiose failures as entrepreneurs reached for the gold, launching a multitude of businesses related to per- sonal computers. Some of the most spectacular successes grew out of early failures. For instance, both ComputerLand and MicroPro germinated from the bankruptcy of IMSAL, a computer Company that made an Altair lookalike. And sadly, other promising startups turned into enormous collapses. Macworld = 9 David Bunnell Although with my hundred years of experience | confess to being very biased, it seems to me that the personal computer story contains important les- sons for everyone. Even if you're not interested in author- ing the next VisiCalc or design- ing a new lap-sized or (Heaven forbid) watch-sized computer, the dramatic changes and gyra- tions that have influenced this: business are in many ways pre- cursors of events to come in businesses and institutions worldwide. This spillover will be created because adopting the personal computer on amass scale will alter the way we work and the way we access and distribute in- formation. The personal com- puter, like the automobile, the television, and a few select in- ventions that preceded it, is what I call a watershed inven- tion. Thatis, it is an invention that will fundamentally change the structure of our society, There are many theories about why the personal com: puter has such a strong and lasting hold on those who use it. Chuck Peddle, a computer pi- oneer par excellence who dle- signed the original Com- modore computer and more recently the Victor Technolog computer (which many people consider superior to the IBM PC), recently said that “once you learn computer literacy, computing is like sex-you can't live without it” He believes that many people were captivated by the Altair computer because they had had a taste of computing in universities, where they used Dartmouth BASIC on main- frame computers. Thus, the poor deprived fools didn’t care that it could take weeks to as- semble an Altair with a solder- ing iron and what were admit- tedly not the friendliest instructions. They cared not that once it was assembled, you had a system with 256 bytes (not kilobytes) of memory that initially could be programmed only by toggling a series of switches on the Altair’s front panel. Of course, what really made the Altair sing was Altair BASIC, written by Bill Gates: and Paul Allen of Micro- soft-that and workable 4K memory boards from a Berke- ley, California, company called Processor ‘Technology. Personally, Fm not sure that 1 agree with the comparison of computing to sex. [fowever, | do think that humanity is devel- oping a symbiotic relationship with the personal computer: that could last for centuries. 1 think of the computer as an ex- tension of human memory, and 10 November 1984 I foresee a day when this addi- tional memory will be with us, for life. Imagine what it would be like if from birth every time you went to a doctor or a den- tist, your personal computer went with you. As well as main- taining oflice records, the phy: sician could update your medi- cal data base so that you always: had your own complete medi- cal history. Whenever you changed doctors or visited a re- mote kocation, your medical history would travel with vou. Periodically, when you got a new or additional computer, this data base could readily be transferred to the new system. Ifthis seems farfetched, con- sider how far personal comput- ing has come in barely ten years: from the Altair, which only a hardware expert could put together, tothe Macintosh, with its friendly user interface and exciting graphics. We can look forward to the evolution of personal computer stan- dards, of which the Mac is the latest Because computers have the ability to remember accurately an infinite amount of cata, they have the potential to become like electronic genies that be- stow gifts on the human brain. Itis no wonder that once you start using a personal com- puter, you quickly reach the stage at which to live without a computer would be undesir- able or even agonizing. The main conclusion I draw from my involvement in this in- dustry is that, as dynamic as it is, we haven't seen nothing yet For the participants in the in- dustry, the last decade may seem like a century, but in rela- tion to the impact it will have on society, the personal com- puting business is still in its infancy, O Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine Osborne/MceGraw-Hill Berkeley, 1984 288 pages; $9.95 LETTER QUALITY PRINTING FOR YOUR MACINTOSH” with ProPrint™ CDI’s ProPrint is the MOST COMPREHENSIVE letter quality program for the MAC on the market today! You can prepare professional letters, reports and documents from your MacWrite™ files on all popular letter quality (serial) printers: Abati Brother Diablo Qume TeleVideo Amdek C. Itoh Dynax Silver-Reed Transtar Apple Comrex Juki Star Powertype Xerox Blue Chip Daisywriter NEC Smith Corona HP. 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MacWrite is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc Circle 64 on reader service card Apples new baby has Its called Macintosh’ And it has a lot of our personality Were called Microsoft: And our part of Macintosh is five new programs that are bright, intuitive, outgoing, understanding and born to perform. 2 SS Serre se aie sl Microsoft BASIC Our pride, your joy. on Apple’s new Macintosh Talaing advantage of Macintosh’ mouse and rich graphics, weve designed software that works like you, even thinks like you. All our programs share | a the same plain English Microsoft Multiplan Microsoft Chart commands. So what once took days to learn, now takes hours or minutes to learn with Macintosh. Meet the family. Our financial whiz is MULTIPLAN’ an electronic spreadsheet that actually remembers how you work. Even offers suggestions on spreadsheet set-up. When it comes to writing, nothing will travel faster than our best features. our WORD, available this Fall. Using the mouse, it will let you select commands faster than you can say“cheese” Our most artistic child will be CHART. Available late this Summer. It gives you 42 presentation-quality chart and graphic styles to choose from. Later this year, well offer our most manageable child, FILE, an advanced personal MICR&SSOFT,. record management program. The High Performance Software And BASIC, the language spoken by nine out of ten microcomputers world- wide, is the granddaddy of them all. | _= |) Nowenhanced to take Microsoft Word Microsoft File full advantage of the Macintosh mouse, windows and graphics. So call 800-426-9400 (in Washington State, Alaska and Hawaii call 206-828-8088) for the name of your nearest Microsoft dealer. A Clip Art Treasury for the Macintosh... 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A slim swivel base that attaches underneath the Macintosh, making it easier to reposition the computer. It goes everywhere the Macintosh goes, even inside the carrying case. The Surge Suppressor is a replacement power cord, a UL listed surge sup- filtering forthe Macin- “Cc tosh. It fits easilyinto ;] \. the carrying case, so pss your Macintosh is pro- —— are two anti- static Dust Covers in the family. One protects your Mac- intosh and keyboard. The other takes care of your Imagewriter. Leave your delicate, intelligent modem at home. The Portable Modem is the perfect traveling companion for the Macintosh. It’s small, sturdy, battery powered, ~~ weighsless / thana q 8, a, pound and even has its — own carrying case. The Portable Modem operates at 300 baud with any communications software. K@ KENSINGTON ™ MICROWARE ‘Trademarks: Maccesores/Kensington Microrae Apple, Macintosh, Imagewriter/Apple Computer Inc. 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Letters (P)review Perplexity Tread with interest and antic- ipation the review of Microsoft Word in your July/August issue. I thought, here's a review of the kind of program that I bought a Mac in order to use. The review was detailed and favorable, and confirmed that Word would suit my needs. But when I phoned Microsoft to check on availabil- ity, I was surprised to hear that Word would not be available until “December at the ear- liest.” I called my dealer, who had told me, “the end of June at the latest.” All she had was a prerelease copy full of bugs. I ume that your reviewer used the same prerelease version. If itwas a “review,” why no men- tion of the bugs? The question I want to raise concerns the editorial policy of your reviews. Granted that the Machas experienced hard times in software development, that a bimonthly magazine suf- fers from time lag even more than a monthly does, and that you need to publish something about Mac software. But why term what you published on Word a“review"? Wouldn't it be more honest to call it a “pre- view” and to state clearly that the program was in prerelease form and still had bugs? Thomas A. Davis Nashville, Tennessee Our goal is to review hard- ware and software in final form only and to publish the reviews in Macworld at the same time as the products are released to the public. How- ever, because manufacturers make last-minute changes to their products which affect re- lease dates, an article cover- ing a product may appear in Macworld before the product makes its way to the market. To avoid confusion, we will try as fully as possible to indi- cate whether we are reviewing a released product in final form or previewing an earlier version. In the case of pre- views, we will publish an esti- mated release date.—Ed. A Happy Reader IT admit that I was a little wor- ried after reading your first is- sues. There didn’t seem to be enough information available on the Mac and related prod- ucts to fill an entire magazine- especially one with your large format. You had quite a bit of empty white space and your multitudinous editorials ran a little too long. However, your July/August is- sue is fantastic! Nothing makes me happier than to see the large Macware News section. Yours is the only magazine that I read and still wish for more advertisements. To be specific: this issue's Open Window, Get Info, and Macware News de- partments were particularly pleasing. “Stepping Into the Paint Bucket” and “The Mac- Write Sleuth” were very useful articles. I treat the issue as if it were part of the documentation that I should have received (but didn’t) for software such as Mi- crosoft BASIC and MacPaint. In closing, let me congratu- late you on your entrance at last into the world of “real” maga- zines! Keep up the good work! Bring us more news on new products, more special tips, and perhaps a little less filler. DanJ. Samuel Mountain View, California The Hacker Lobby Speaks I'd like to commend you on a superlative job. Both the look and content of your Premier is- sue were excellent. It was full of useful information. In fact, I've read my copy so many times it's getting a bit ragged. If I could make any improvement, I would add a monthly column about the more advanced uses of the Mac. As the chief programmer for start-up Mac software com- pany and a Certified Macintosh Developer, I'd like to see Mac- world support both serious 1al Mac hackers. While I realize that your magazine is not aimed at a technically ori- ented audience, I do believe the Mac will attract many such people, as well as others who have no intention of program- ming but simply “fall into it” Also, the languages MBASIC, MacPascal, and Modula 2 are coming soon for the Mac. I'm sure that even many of your non-technical readers will be interested in reading about them-if not in your pages, in someone else's, Erik D. Barnes Santa Rosa, California Software Worries I looked at computers for sev- eral months before deciding to buy a Macintosh. I could not make an absolute decision, so I plunged in. I was influenced by a friend whose company has the Lisa in their offices and who assured me that the Mac's format is the thing of the future. 1 am not a business person, and I use my machine at home with some applications for my work. I teach high school Biol- ogy and do my grades on our school computers as well tistics for my basketball team. I would like to do personal ac- counting and record keeping, as well as have something that my children could benefit from—that is, educational soft- Macworld 19 Get that Big Promotion. In half an hour, your boss is due to finalize a merger with a company you have doubts about. His career rides on this deal. 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Henry Felix El Paso, Texas Barbara Koatkin, Apple 32 product marketing manager, reminds us that the Mac is intended to be primarily a business machine, not a home computer like the Apple II. Therefore, software devel- opers have been encouraged in that direction. Educational programs in particular will be few in number and slow to ar- rive; some courseware being developed by members of the University Consortium may reach the high-school level. However, this doesn’t mean that home users like you will be out in the cold. Although there are no personal finan- cial programs in the stores as of this writing, several have been announced for release this year; among them are Per- sonal Tax Planner (Aardvark/ McGraw-Hill), Back to Basics Accounting System (Peachtree Software), Home “Mac” Ac- countant (Arrays/Continental Software), Dollars and Sense (Monogram), and the Personal Financial Planning series (Ap- ropos Software; used with Multiplan ). Stay tuned to “Macware News” for an- nouncements of upcoming product releases.—Ed. More Internationalism Iread your article “The Inter- national Macintosh” [May/June] and am interested in the French keyboard and the French Mac- Write program. I have already spoken with people at Apple Computer, who told me that I could not buy them because they are not sold in the United States. lam afreshman in col- lege this fall; I plan to take French for the first time and think that the French materials would help me tremendously. I will appreciate any information you can give me about how to purchase them, Katherine Cowden Houston, Texas Joanna Hoffman, interna- tional marketing manager for the Mac, says that Apple is still considering whether to sell in- ternational machines and software in the United States. Ifa large demand develops, they will try to accommodate it. Apple is keeping in close touch with members of the University Consortium to monitor needs on campus for foreign-language Mac prod- ucts. Hoffman suggests that for now you use the optional characters shown in Key Caps in the Apple menu. That way you can type in French with- out the French keyboard.—Ed. Credit to the Team As a member of the Macintosh development team, I was inter- viewed for your Premier issue [‘The Making of the Macin- tosh”]. I was quoted as saying, “T essentially did all the draw- ings for the Macintosh, from the layout to original models to final production drawings” This statement is flattering but, alas, inaccurate. As the man- ager of product design, I was responsible for the output of my group. To let this quote stand uncorrected would be unfair to my friends whose work was also critical to the successful introduction of the Introducing Dow Jones Straight Talk™ Now there's smart software” for the Macintosh. Think of it. Now there's software as smart as the Apple® Macintosh™ computer. Dow Jones Straight Talk™ offers you all the facts in Dow Jones News/Retrieval® and the other leading information services. With Straight Talk, you get the exact information you need when you need it. Dow Jones Straight Talk isa trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. Dow Jones News/Retrieval is a registered trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Ine. Smart software isa trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Inc. The Information Game is a trademark of Dow Jones & Company, Ine. Apple is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer. Inc. Copyright © 1984 Dow Jones & Company, Inc, All Rights Reserved, Get an‘A’ on your Paper. It’s one o’clock in the morning. Your term paper on the American Revolution is due at 8 a.m. Where was the misnamed Battle of Bunker Hill really fought? It could be the difference between an “A” and a “B” Now there’s smart software” for the Macintosh™ computer. With Straight Talk, the smart software from Dow Jones, you can use an electronic encyclopedia to find the historical fact you need. Even if it’s the fact that on June 17, 1776 the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought on Breed’s Hill. Circle 69 on reader service card Macworld 21 Anewand unique graphic input device for your Macintosh! Patent Pending PaintMate” PaintMate™ adds a new dimension to your Mac- Paint™ software. It allows you to super-impose, through reflection, any flat or 3 dimensional object (like the apple above) directly in front of the Macin- tosh™ monitor for tracing with the mouse/cursor. II- lustrations can now be rendered more easily with the right proportions and perspectives for super looking graphics. Assembles and attaches easily Just $39.95. Macintosh and MacPaint are Trademarks of Apple Computer. Inc. Actual rendering made using PaintMate with MacPaint Circle 99 on reader service card MAIL TO: Hoglund Tri-Ordinate Corp. P.O. Box 185 Berkeley Heights, N.J. 07922 | ‘2° Enclosed is my certified check or money order | Address for $39.95 plus $3.00 to cover shipping and handling (Personal and company checks requre’3 weeks tor cearance) | City Please bill my () American Express () Visa Stateizip. Mastercard | (Charge will not be applied to your card until we ship) | Credit Card # Order by phone 201-464-0205 Signature Letters Mac. They deserve public rec- ognition for their dedication to our project Terry Oyama did early con- ceptualization on the housing’s form. He did the bezel drawing and saw it through its changes. He did considerable analysis on the fit of the two-part housing and came up with the concept of the two top vent inserts. Dave Roots executed the de- sign of the keyboard and the many different options for Key Caps required by the interna- tional nature of our product. He also did the product design for the keypad and the external disk-drive housing. Ben Pang was in charge of updating the group's drawing and material lists. He worked on speaker mounting and de- signed the analog board shield. His greatest contribution was taking on the responsibility of mechanical design and docu- mentation for all internal foam packing and cardboard boxes. Laszlo Zsidek contributed his. expertise in the early stages of tool procurement. Steve Balog continued where Laszlo left off and made significant contribu- tions to tool design. Steve's rec- ords could always be counted upon for quickly determining the status of the many Mac tools. Bill Bull conducted many nights of tedious temperature experiments to arrive at a reli- able thermal management plan for the Mac. He specialized in picking up loose ends, includ- ing liaison with the cable vendors. The mechanical product de- sign of the Macintosh should be remembered as a team effort in the truest sense. Jerrold C. Manock Palo Alto, California Multiplan and Cairo Revisions Macworld is beautifully de- signed, gives accurate reports, and in general is a joy to read. But I'd like to offer a few cor- rections. In your Letters for both the May/June and July/Au- gust issues, you referred to the updated version of Multiplan as 1.01. Shouldn't it be 1.02? That's the update I received. Concerning Andrew Koran's letter (“One Man's Boycott” in “Letters,” July/August] about his discontentment with Mzdti- plan's copy-protection: Micro- softnow offers a backup disk for $10 to cover duplicating and handling expenses. I have found that it is not necessary to reinsert the master disk to start the copy; it functions as if it were the original. Lastly, the Cairo font you showed [“Macworld View,” July/ August] does not correspond to the version I got from my dealer. Can there be two Cairos? John Yeb Honolulu, Hawaii You're right that the latest ver- sion of Multiplan is 7.02. How- ever, the backup disk you re- ceived from Microsoft is in effect a second master disk; if you copy this disk, the Mac will still prompt you to insert your backup master to opena file. The key correspondences in your Cairo font are accurate; the ones we showed were ina prerelease version that has been changed. —Ed. Letters should be mailed to Letters, Macworld, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107, or sent electronically to CompuServe 74055,412 or Source STE908. O AZTEC C68K-C.............. $499 AZTEC C68K-P .......5..0.. AZTEC C68K TOOLS ...... MAC CROSS COMPILER HOSTS & TARGETS TO ORDER OR FOR INFORMATION CALL OR WRITE: CALL: MANX SOFTWARE SYSTEMS Box 55 Shrewsbury, NJ 07701 TX 4995812 800-221-0440 201-780-4004 (NJ) Circle 112 on reader service card Macworld — 23 An Interactive Information System For Individuals With A Need To Know With Odesta Helix, you can now manage any information with easily created forms. 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Here is just one example: Enter an order, and generate an invoice, adjust inventory, update customer records, and keep track of receivables. Everything you enter can be easily modified, redefined, and interrelated. There are no barriers placed between you and the way you want to do things. Odesta, 3186 Doolittle Driv (800) 32: Northbrook, IL 60062 (USA) 5423 In Illinois, (312) 498-5615 Apple, Lisa, and Macintosh are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. © 1984 ODESTA A Personal Decision Support System An Individualized Knowledge Base Tiles act as arithmetic, text, Boolean and date operators, func- tions and values. Visual building blocks let you set up even the most complicated statement or calculation and use it whenever you want to. You “flow” the information from one block into another —just by pointing. Each “diagram” shrinks down to become an icon that can be used in any form or even embedded in another “tile”. This lets you shape conditions and relationships naturally — without having to use a programming language. The magic of the tiles and arrows é File Edit icons Tile List aren Extension has to be seen to be believed — ask your dealer for a demonstration. Odesta Helix uses icons to represent every piece of your information. Make them appear if you wish, and re- arrange them within or between forms. Define and restrict them if you wish, for data checking and security. But most of the time, just let them stay hidden “behind” the form. No special commands to learn in order to search through your “ocean” of information. Simply ask a question by pointing to a spot on a form, or by filling in spaces with your own questions — Odesta Helix will search and sort at the click of a mouse. Example: “Find all books published before 1940, that are first editions costing more than $13.00, and that are about World War I and are illustrated.” Imagine the possibilities. File Edit icons Find Previous Find First fldd E heplace be Gpen Selection Write a letter, enter a memo, or log in your research ~ all within Odesta Helix. You don’t need another pro- gram to work your text. Cut, copy, paste, search and replace within or between any of your forms and reports. Or com- bine information with a letter and do a “mail merge”. Circle 13 on reader service card Macworld View News and notes for the Macintosh community Edited by Janet McCandless Macworld View reports on new products and develop- ments in Macintosh technol- ogy. We will cover items of interest to Mac users and comment on industry trends. We welcome contributions from readers and pay up to $50 for the items we use. Please include your name, address, and phone number with your contributions; send them to Macworld View, 555 De Haro St., San Francisco, CA 94107. Correspondent Roy Shigley of San Francisco reports that with $1.25 million worth of com- puter technology at its finger- tips, the Democratic National Convention put the Macintosh to work on several critical tasks. Tim Sammons, a com- puter systems consultant for the convention, claims that the Mac performed better than the IBM PC at facility management, project management, and main- taining the electronic calendar. Specific organizing tasks for the Mac included equipment in ventories, transportation sched- Above, computer system consultant Tim Sammons carries a Macintosh into the Democratic convention. Below, two posters designed and executed on the Mac that were exhibited in San Krancisco during the convention. The posters display political statements mace by famous Americans; they are part of a series by Michael Mallery. ules, and revisions of floor plans. Copy printed in the large font sizes was shown on tele- prompters used on the podi. um, and directional signs printed on the Mac were used in the maze of walkways in San Francisco's Moscone Center. The Mac was patched into a larger network at the conven: tion that handled the flow of in- formation among the conven- tion hall, hotels, and other 26 November 1984 strategic locations. Sammons calls the gathering of Demo- crats “the first truly electronic convention. I believe we have set a new standard for large media event gatherings. 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The MacColby case is designed for industrial and mil- itary markets, as well as busi- nesses in which sales personnel or managers transport their Macs to outside meetings. Colby Computer strips the Mac, its keyboard, its modem, and its disk drive from their plastic casings and encloses them in an aluminum box with a hard plastic exterior (similar to the plastic used in professional football helmets). The mouse is kept in its original housing and tored inside the unit. The keyboard is encased in die-cast magnesium and snaps onto the front of the unit. A built-in fan provides pres- surized, filtered air that circu- lates from the back of the disk drive and out the front. An anti- glare filter improves screen contrast. The only external ca- ble or connection is the power cord. The unit has a handle that functions as a stand and locks in six positions for tilting the screen. The company offers several additional options including purchase and installation of a second disk drive ($399), a video output board ($199) that gives you the capability of con- necting the Mac to a standard monitor, and a DC converter ($199) that enables you to plug the Mac into a 12-volt outlet. Colby told us that Colby Com- puter’s own 512K upgrade will be available for the Mac, as well as the option to install a hard disk. The repackaged Mac weighs approximately 14 pounds less than the equivalent Mac com- ponents. An optional carrying case ($139) is foam lined and water resistant, and designed to fit under airplane seats. Accord- ing to Colby, one of the first prototypes will go to John Scul- ley, president of Apple Com- puter. The conversion kit can be purchased directly from Colby Computer or through Ap- ple dealers (list price $599, in- toductory price $499). For fur- ther information, contact Colby Computer, 849 Independence Ave., Mountain View, CA 94043. 28 November 1984 Font Fabrications In response to the public's de- mand for more fonts and larger font sizes, three software com- panies have developed font disks. A Florida-based software company, Dreams of the Phoe- nix, offers a Macintosh fonts disk that contains new sizes for Chicago (18 and 24), Venice (36), London (36), and New York (72). Christopher Allen, president of Dreams, com- ments that, due to the square shape of each dot that appears on the screen, some fonts that look attractive when typeset do not work as well in comput- erized versions. (A look at the text characters in MacPaint re- veals the square dots that make up each character.) Font de- signers must also take into ac- count the amount of memory required to use a font. For ex- ample, New York 72 can be use- ful for posters, but you may run out of disk space if you load two or three other fonts of its size into memory. Dreams plans to introduce Greek and Hebrew language fonts and is also at work on a Cyrillic alphabet. Linguists’ Software of Mt. Hermon, Cali- fornia, has developed three al- phabets: Greek, Hebrew, and Japanese (including all hiragana and katakana char- acters and a selection of com- mon kanji characters). A clip- art manufacturer, Miles Com- puting, plans a Tokyo font that will include Japanese callig- raphy. Miles Computing has com- bined clip art and fonts ina two-volume set called Mac the Knife. The first volume includes three fonts (Manhattan, Holly- wood, and Mos Eisley) and the second volume approximately 25 fonts. Most of the fonts come in at least three sizes and offer additional graphics and “hid- den goodies.” All the fonts in- clude foreign characters anda set of fractions. The font im- ages vary from brushstrokes to stencils (see “Macware News” in thi e for further information). ice of the Fut As fast as you can press the Re- turn key, the Mac can now turn your typewritten words into spoken words. Written by First Byte of Long Beach, California, Smoothtalker is a software program available in two ver- sions, one licensed to devel- opers and the other sold in re- tail stores. Smoothtalker currently generates an adult male voice; additional voices will be added to future ver- sions. The program requires no additional hardware and uses approximately 32K, which lets you copy the program onto ap- plication disks. The program interprets common English symbols and abbreviations such as $, Dr., and Ms. and pro- vides a dictionary that lets you customize vocabulary and pro- nunciation. The dictionary al- lows you to type acronyms or code letters or words that the Mac will interpret and speak as complete words. Smoothtalker can read any MacWrite file or re ASCII file. Programmers can call Smoothtalker as a routine and insert it into their BASIC or Pascal programs. David Fradin, president of First Byte, anticipates applica- tions for Smoothtalker in edu- cation, training programs, and games. As a sales tool, a talking Mac could tirelessly demon- strate new products to poten- tial customers. Audio disks could be packaged with other products, such as a hard disk, to guide new owners through installation procedures. Speech offers a third dimension to the Mac that is as yet unexplored (see “Macware News” in this is sue for address information). Software Across the Sea Apple is exporting interna- tional Macs equipped with key- boards and manuals localized for the French, German, Italian, British, Spanish, French Cana- dian, Dutch, Swedish, and Jap- anese markets. Apple is taking on the role of “matchmaker” to bring certified developers to- gether with managers and overseas distributors. As the in- ternational software market opens up, this role will be taken over by companies such as International Solutions of Saratoga, California, which han- dles translation and production of manuals, packaging, duplica- tion of disks, mail orders, finan- cial letters of credit, import and export arrangements, and mar- keting and distribution chan- nels. Currently, International Solutions is translating Mac Daisywheel Connection (Assimilation Process) for the French and German markets. Mark Kvamme, chief execu- tive officer of International So- lutions, considers the Mac the “first truly international com- puter because of the icons and other features in its user inter- face.” The Mac's resource files allow software companies to separate text from program code, so text used in menus, windows, and dialog boxes can be translated without having to recompile a program. Kvamme considers the market for Amer- ican products overseas to be stronger than the mi What Lies Beneath the Label? You may be surprised to find outthat the Imagewriter printer you bought to go with your Macintosh is actually man- ufactured by Tokyo Electric, which based its design on the C. Itoh Prowriter. And the Hot Dot, a dot matrix printer from Leading Edge, is another ver- sion of the Prowriter. But the C. Itoh Starwriter is manufactured by Tokyo Electric, as is the Ap- ple Scribe printer. On the other hand, the Apple Daisy Wheel printer is manufactured by Qume, but Qume's LetterPro daisy wheel printer is manufac- tured by Ricoh. According to Lauryn Jones, president of Assimilation Pro- cess, the reason for this seem- ingly confusing story of man- ufacturing and marketing is economics. It is often more economical for companies to buy a printer and customize it than to assume the manufactur- ing costs of a printer that will broaden a product line but may not command significant sales on its own. In Japan the practice of dis tributing a product under vari- ous labels is widely accepted because companies specialize in different phases of produc- tion and marketing. C. Itoh is the trading company for many Japanese manufacturers. Tokyo Electric manufactures printers in large volume but doesn't have access to as many distribu- tion outlets as C. Itoh, nor does it provide as extensive retail support In the United States, manu- facturers such as U. S. Data Products, Diablo, Qume, and Centronics supply printers for mini and mainframe systems but not for the personal com- puter market. Personal com- puter peripherals have lower profit margins for the hardware manufacturers. By purchasing printers made overseas, hard- ware distributors such as Qume can satisfy their customers’ de- mand for a wide selection of printers. This method of cus- tomizing and repackaging, printers is cheaper for distribu- tors than setting up their own production facilities. Manufacturing information can be useful to end users. For example, Silver Reed letter quality printers use the Diablo command set, which means that you can use a Silver Reed printer with software that sup- ports a Diablo printer. Mac owners who purchase a Dynax or Comrex letter quality printer will be able to use software that runs with Brother printers, be- cause both printers have the same mechanism used by the Brother HR series. For informa- tion on hooking up your Mac to a letter quality printer, see “Let- ter Quality Arrives” in this issue. 0 Macworld 29 TUMWS'*V eg GGICIZ, Lets you make Macintosh* slide shows with movie-type special effects! Now, for business meetings .... sales presentations ... in-store and store window demonstrations for classroom use for home fun! Anything you can put on a Mac screen can be used with the Slide Show Magician. . . from Multiplan® spreadsheets and MacWrite** copy to pictures, graphs, words and charts. You can control every frame with your Mouse or let the entire show run automatically, even run continuously as an unattended display! There are 16 dramatic, movie-type special effects you can use to create extra attention. And, right on the screen you can place the specific control buttons you want to click Start, Next frame, back-up, jump [to a specific frame}, pause/resume, quit. Want Subliminal Messages in your show? The Slide Show Magician lets you put them in, as well as superimpose blocks of text over key pictures. Naturally, you can edit your show — shift a frame. eliminate a frame, add or delete special effects, select the time before a frame change. And you can use the sup- plied screen-borders {like a stage curtain which opens} or quickly prepare your own. Now you can create the most interesting slide shows this side of Hollywood! And thanks to the Mac’s portability you can take it with you right to a customer's desk, the boss’ Office, to school, to meetings. Or, set it on a counter or in your store window and let the show run and fun and run. Get the Slide Show Magician today, it’s good business Need art help to make an impressive slide show? See the McPic! information that follows. Only $59.95 qes = For details, . ae as see below. Here’s push-button art for the Mac! A combined total of over 300 useful, usable pictures you can use “As Is”. Or, with MacPaint/MacWrite you can customize, clone, combine or change them to suit your needs! oe Vol. 1 has its library of pictures in 12 individual Scrapbooks from Business to Holiday to nimals to Symbols. Vol. 2's unduplicated pictures are in MacPaint ** files, and cover every- i thing from Science, Exotica, Maps and Flags to the People Maker which lets you make oe your own people from dozens of heads, eyes. mouths, hats, torsos, accessories etc! ie sa Each volume has a different Hint Manual which graphically shows you how to make a Wa thousand picture variations! No competitive program is so complete, so useful, so usable! For 15 business. for school, for home. for anyone who needs or wants to create invitations, cards, 7 flyers, stationery, ads, reports. Available now at your computer store. Vol. | MePie! with 28 page Hint Manual. $49.95 Me Ly Vol. 2 MePiet with 36 page Hint Manual. $49.95 J ad @ The Slide Show Magician. $59.95 4 Bau Lit VISA/MASTERCARD accepted. Add $200 shipping/handling for |." waa” J program. $3 for 2 pragrams. $4 for ali 3. (Cal. residents please add’ Qs 6 1/2% tax} ry i © Regatered trademark of Microsott Corp. > Sl “rademank ers © Apple Compute ne “Trademarks of Apple Computer Inc SOFTWARE - eres oS EOS ang SS 21N'S Devonshire St=Ste. 337 ¢ Chatsworth. Ca: 91311 *(8'8}°700-0510 Circle 51 on reader service card Introducing the Universal Printer Stand. At last, a printer stand that fits practi- cally all dot matrix printers, short carriage or wide. It accommodates everything from the Apple® Image- writer™ to printers from Epson® Okidata® C. Itoh® and others. It’s so versatile, you may never have to carry any other printer stand. And it’s not a hog for shelf space. Constructed from durable metal tubing, the Universal Printer Stand fits in a box so compact, you can store a half dozen of them where you used to have just one conventional printer stand. The Universal Printer Stand raises a printer 1%” from the desk at the front and 4/2" at the back, allowing the user to monitor its performance more easily. And by raising a printer a few inches from the desk, the Universal Printer Stand solves the problem of where to store paper. It gives you plenty of room to store several hundred sheets of paper, eliminating paper feed problems. The Maccessories Universal Printer Stand is also very affordable: $24.95 Available from your favorite dealer. Or direct from Kensington. 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Macintosh is a trademark licensed to Apple Computer, Inc. ircle 89 on reader service card |_| Getting Started: Systems Double-Disk Strategies Daniel Farber Like many other people who purchased the Macintosh shortly after its debut last January, I was so intrigued by the Mac's remarkable features that I initially overlooked or ig- nored some of its shortcomings. Although there was little software available and no way to expand the Mac’s disk stor- age space or memory, I felt like a pioneer as I explored the new computer, learning the idiosyncracies of the Finder, Mac- Write, MacPaint, and Multiplan. Needless to say, I also be- came adept at juggling the 32-inch floppy disks in and out of the Mac’s lone internal drive. For many Mac owners, the 400K storage capacity of a sin- gle-drive Mac is a serious limitation. When I started using the Mac to write articles and to create MacPaint documents for the Premier issue of Macworld, the dreaded “disk full” mes- sage and the drudgery of disk juggling became the bane of my existence. Added together, many hours of my time passed in shuffling disks in and out of the disk drive to make backup copies of documents and to transfer information between documents residing on different disks. What I needed to save me from the time-consuming task of disk juggling was an ex- ternal disk drive to give me another 400K of disk space. 34 November 1984 ‘uouv2yddv dnians aqi so uotmoydde aus agi Susn parva.oson suaunzop aq) sv Suo] so ‘anuap puoras ax}1 tu YSIP aq) UO pa1wd -0] mawnsop v uado 0} sasip aj8nl 10 uorwoyddo aqj11inbo1 ang 1UOp Nod MAPULA-U}Y’ agi iI aaLAp joLLLaIXa aq) Ut ASIP aq) UO Sjuaunzop aq) fo sau agi SIS A]wILDULOIND UO} “ING aaLeC ay} UO BULAIYD aALip POLAANAL Aq] Ut ASIP We IE ay! 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Copying the same disk with a two-drive Mac is no. faster, but it is automatic. To copy a disk using an exter- nal drive, you drag the icon of the disk to copy onto the icon of the destination disk, and the Mac carries out the procedure for you. You won't see any “please insert the disk” messages unless you have been work: ing with more than two disks and the disk you want to copy from or to is not in one of the drives (such a disk icon appears dimmed on the desktop) Compared to a single-drive Mac, an external drive reduces the time for copying files from one disk to an- other by more than half, Copying time depends on the number and the size of files. Copying a ISK MacWrite document with a two-drive Mac, for example, takes: about 25 seconds. Copying a folder with three docu- ments totaling 33K takes about 35 seconds. Copying files with a second disk drive isnt lightning fast, but after vou have juggled disks for a few months it's a relief. Cutting and pasting information between disks or documents with an external drive is less time consum- ing than with a single-drive Mac. Suppose you are de- signing an advertisement with WacPaint and want to include a logo you created earlier. In this case, the disk in the internal drive contains the MacPaint program and some MacPaint documents (as well as the Finder and the System file that the Mac uses to launch and run the application). The disk containing the document that has the logo is in the external drive, You can use either the Clipboard or the Scrapbook to copy the logo into the MacPaint document you are working on Either the Clipboard or the Scrapbook copy proc dure can be used from within MacPaint as tollows: ® Close the MacPaint document you are working on (by clicking on the close box or choosing Close from the File menu). ® Choose Open from the File menu. In the scroll window, the Mini-Finder lists the names of the Wac- Paint documents on the MacPaint disk in the internal drive (see Figure 1). Or, if the document you are work- ing on is on the disk in the external drive, the names of the MacPaint documents on this disk are displayed in the Mini-Finder scroll window. @ On the right side of the Mini-Finder, click on the Drive button, and the MfacPaint documents on the disk holding the logo document appear in the scroll window (see Figure 2) ® Double-click on the file labeled “Logo,” and the document appears on the screen. © Cut or copy the logo you want to the Clipboard or the Scrapbook. @ Close the document window and follow the procedure again to get back to your original document on the MacPaint disk. When you return to the docu- ment, the logo will be in the Clipboard or the Scrap- book, ready to be pasted. While the Clipboard is sufficient for wansterring single items, you can use the Scrapbook to save time when you transfer several items at once. If you need to place several illustrations, charts, tables, or portions of text stored on one disk into a document on another disk, for instance, you can copy the information into the Scrapbook file of the application disk in the inter- nal drive. Because documents are bound to the System file of the star tup application disk, the text or graphics you put in the $ apbook are stored automatically on. the same disk as the System file used by the appli- cation. (continued on page 40) Bagel ad Borders #1 Borders #2 Display types Game ad Logo [Moviead | Paint/Data 2 Figure 2 Double-clicking onan item (or selectingan item and clicking on the Open button) opens a document. If you have a long list of MacPaint or MacWrite documents, for example, you cant colling” technique. Iype the first letter of the name of the document you want to open, and the Mini- also use the “auto: Finder automatically scrolls to the first document that begins with that letter Macworld 37 i | Getting Started Protecting Your Information Backing up your documents on data disks is esgential if you want to protect your in- formation. Because a computer is a ma- chine, it sometimes has mechanical failures that can send your documents irretrievably into the ozone. A two-drive Mac makes it easier to back up documents than does one-drive system. Asimple way to back up documents with a two-drive system is to use your ap- plication disk as a temporary transfer area. You can move the documents you want to back up from the data disk to the applica- tion disk and then transfer the documents to a backup data disk. This technique is practical if you need to back up only a few documents that you have recently created or modified. It is impractical if your ap- plication disk (such as a Write/Paint clisk with a fully loaded System file) doesn't have sufficient disk space to hold your doc- uments temporarily. Here's a step-by-step description of the temporary transfer technique: © Copy the documents you want to back up from the data disk onto the ap- plication disk. @ Eject the data disk and inserta backup data disk in the external drive. © Copy the documents from the ap- plication disk to the backup data disk. @ Finally, drag the copies of the docu- ments on your application disk into the Trash to clean up your application disk and reinsert the original data disk to continue your work. Backing up files is easy when your documents are stored on the startup disk. You insert a data disk in the vacant drive, select the documents you want to back up, and drag them into the data disk window. Backing up entire data disks requires alittle disk juggling. Because data disks can’t start up the Mac, you must have a disk that contains the Finder and the System file in one of the drives. To back up an entire data disk, use the following procedure: 38 November 1984 | Font Mover in System file in Fonts file *Chicago-12 re Help fa “Geneva- 9 *Geneva-12 Geneva-24 Pstonaco- 9 Total space: 0 bytes * required for system use Write Fonts ‘The Font Mover allous you to create more disk space for documents by removing fonts from the System file. The fonts in the System file in this fig: ure take up about 17K. The only non-System font, Geneva-24, is included because the Font Manager scales down 24-point to 12-point for printing in high resolution. You can remove 24- point Geneva (7K) if you don (print in high reso- lution. The System fonts, which are used to create the text in dialog bo sand menus, are quite readable on the screen as well as on paper. € File Edit view special _ | Write OF name Kind ‘System “Syeten document ‘Sytem dacument Syston document Chipboard Fite Syste documant Write 238 By removing unneeded fonts and desk accesso- you can free up a substantial amount of space. This “stripped” System setup is es pecially convenient for using an external drive for backup purposes or for working on a single drive Mac. You can also remove the Imagewriter file (17K) if you don't print in standard or high- resolution mode. This strategy isn't practical for all application programs: most pregrams take up more disk space than MacWrite and require more Jully featured System files. @ Insert your application disk or any startup disk that has the Finder and System file into the internal drive and insert the data disk you want to back up into the ex- ternal drive. @ Eject the startup disk in the internal drive and replace it with the data disk vou want to use for backing up your docu- ments in the internal drive. © Drag the icon of the data disk onto the icon of the backup data disk. © Click on OK when the Mac asks if you want to replace the contents of the disk in the internal drive with the contents of the disk in the external drive. The Mac reads the information on your data disk and writes it onto the backup data disk @ Insert the startup disk that was orig- inally in the internal drive, after the Mac has completed the copy procedure and ejected the backup data disk. Then the Mac updates the Finder about the locations and names of your applications and docu- ments. Quick Backup Disks Backing up documents usually re- quires some disk juggling, even with a sec- ond disk drive. If backing up your docu- ments is the key concern, there is a way to set up your di: 0 that you can use the second drive for backup purposes onl This strategy, however, may not be practi- cal for some applications because of the amount of disk space taken up by the ap- plication and the System Folder. You can use the second drive for backup, but you wont have much space to create docu- ments. A MacPaint system disk, for exam- ple, has about 137K available for docu- ments—enough space for only a few com- plex drawings. You can create a MecWrile system disk, on the other hand, that has 238K of document space. Using the Font Mover, you can remove fonts you don't need. My Mac- Write workdisks have only Geneva-12 and -24 and the System fonts (which you cannot remove) in the System file (see the figure labeled “Write Fonts”). You need the Ge- neva fonts because the Mac’s Font Manager uses those sizes for printing. It scales down the larger size by 50 percent to enhance the characters’ image on paper. The desk accessories are especially useful because they are accessible from the desktop or from within an application. However, | find that I rarely use them when I'm writing. | used the Desk Accessory Mover (avail- able from CE Software, 801 73rd St, Des Moines, 1A 50312) to remove the unneeded desk accessories from my WdceWrite disk’s System file. This utility allows you to delete or add desk accessories and to save them ina file that you can store on a separate disk. As new desk accessories become available, such as a Rolodex-type appoint- ment calendar, you can use the Desk A¢ cessory Mover to move them into the Sys- tem file so you can select them from the Apple menu. With a few other tweaks such as emp- tying the Scrapbook, you can obtain 238K of disk space for creating and storing docu- ments. If you can get by with printing in draft mode only, you can pick up an addi- tional 17K by removing the Imagewriter file (see the figure labeled “Write 238"). Every time you return to the desktop, you can replace the older versions of your documents on the data disk or transfer copies of newly created documents to the data disk. You can also create backup cop- ies of documents from within an applica- tion by using the following technique: @ Save the document on the applic: tion disk by choosing Save from the File menu and clicking on the Yes button in the dialog box. © Choose Save As from the File menu and click on the Drive button before click- ing on the Save button. You can even re- name the document to reflect its backup status. ‘To transfer a document from another disk or a different application to your Wac- Write disk, you eject the data disk and in- sert the disk vou need to use. After you finish the file transfer or the cut-and-paste operation, eject the disk in the external drive and replace it with a data disk. Then transfer copies of the modified or new documents to the data disk to keep your: backup files up to date. Macworld 39 & File Edit i | Getting Started (continued from page 37) You can also replace the Scrapbook file on one disk with the Scrapbook file from another disk. For ex- ample, you may have 15 documents on a Microsoft Chart disk that you want to insert in a MacWrite busi- ness report. You can copy the Chart documents to the program's Scrapbook file. Then you can replace the Scrapbook file on the MacWrite disk with Charts Scrapbook file (see Figure 3 ). To exchange Scrap- books, follow this procedure: @ Insert AacWrite in the internal drive and Chart in the external drive. © Open the System Folder on the MacWrite disk. If the MacWrite Scrapbook file contains items you want to preserve, rename the file (the Mac has a rule that every object must have a unique name). If the contents of the Scrapbook file are expendable, drag it into the Trash. © Drag the Scrapbook file from the Chart disk window into the MacWrite disk window. You can use the Clipboard a